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by gopalv 2y ago
> The GPU often loses even for small neural nets given the large latency Apple's neural engine shows that you can live in between those two worlds. As you said, the trouble is the latency, the programming model is still great.
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by gopalv 2y ago
> That would be like asking a driver, "what's your favorite pothole you've ever driven over?" The bugs that matter aren't potholes, they're trails with no markers, cut by someone you don't know who has
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by gopalv 2y ago
> it makes it harder for a smart person to schedule optimally, since now the data they have includes an unknown fudge factor. The fudge factor always existed, it is now the airline's job rather than mine. They have an incentive to p
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by gopalv 2y ago
> look at Linux and Firefox! AI models are more like a programming language or CPU architecture. OpenAI is Intel and Anthropic is AMD.
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by gopalv 2y ago
> NE is suppose to get more rain with Climate Change At least in CA, rain causes more grass growth for fires to connect up through. The fire material just builds up as growth pull carbon out and builds up a pile of it (because when a tre
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by gopalv 2y ago
> I don’t understand how a business model that makes money pops out on the other end Tractors and farming. By turning what is traditionally a labour intensive product into a capital intensive one. For now, the farmers who own tractors wi
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by gopalv 2y ago
> the multitude of two-stroke-engine-powered vehicles in Southern European cities, so I can imagine having them replaced by electric versions In India, the 4-stroke came in big right around the time when leaded fuel got banned. The anti-
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by gopalv 2y ago
PHP has a special place in the story of the web-dev. The whole "no build step" was the most underrated factor for its success, because it was such a low-skill tool to pick up. The tightness of that edit-test-move loop was why I us
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by gopalv 3y ago
> prevents us from being challenged enough Digital tools mostly seem help me with long-term memory and doesn't do a thing for the working memory exercise. I can look up a phone number or have a calendar on what I'm doing next W
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by gopalv 3y ago
> Can you imagine a weaver thinking "how can I stay ahead of the loom?" Of course that happened and will happen again, but with the same results. That's almost the exact origin of the word "Luddite", where people
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by gopalv 3y ago
> Do you take your shoes off at work? (assuming you still have a non-virtual workplace) In India, when the dust kills computers by clogging fans, you'll see workplaces with computers have a "leave your shoes outside" board
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by gopalv 3y ago
> the more effective engineers who understand these priorities are given more respect and authority. The problem with "given more authority" I see is that management plucks these engineers out to make their day job basically &
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by gopalv 3y ago
> in my experience once you get past a certain point (~X000 MB/s) performance gains become pretty marginal in real world applications There might be no latency benefits to that, but there's always a throughput gain from using f
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by gopalv 3y ago
> he goes from 60 mph/96 kph to 0 in 13 seconds and the stop lights never illuminate I ride a motorcycle and I give Teslas a lot of cushion when riding behind. They're common enough in the bay area to be treated specially, beca
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by gopalv 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/838/ Well, if you have an incident list and nobody's checking it twice ...
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by gopalv 3y ago
> Many of us have a strong sense that the future of ML involves models built by large teams in industry environments The gradient of current moment is that whatever approach is optimized to use more data and more compute is much easier t
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by gopalv 3y ago
> minority rule, in the Senate If you look away from the senators and consider the people the senators represent, it was intended to be even without the filibuster. But what should be truly opposed is the cowardly way in which the filibu
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by gopalv 3y ago
With fixed hardware, you're always planning for max workloads. The systems are scaled up for the "Black friday" sales event. With cloud, you will plan for the steady state and just boost it up when you need to. The anti-patte
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by gopalv 3y ago
> be a 60 year old software engineer now you would have to have started in 1984 My uncle is a 60 year old software developer, but he started writing software much later in life. He started off in EE working for Sperry, went with the divi
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by gopalv 3y ago
Are you thinking of something like the Blinkenlights Star Wars telnet demo from a while ago? The "securing" part aside, ssh still gives you a whole terminal experience very similar to the telnet one & the ability to draw into
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by gopalv 3y ago
> and >90 after that This is such a circular thing, that I feel like it is amazing to see it. The reason LLMs use a NN is because they're trying to encode a probability function for generating the passage. And now, you are encod
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by gopalv 3y ago
> Meanwhile the Rivian pick-up I test drove feels like an actual vehicle on the inside and had better handling In Model 3 and Model Y, it is clear that Tesla is cutting corners where it can & the gap between those and a Model S Plaid
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by gopalv 4y ago
The company (Mythic AI) in the article was featured on a Veritasium video[1] about analog computing. The interesting part for analog is obviously going to be wear and repeatability, because the digital layer auto-corrects the errors until i
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by gopalv 4y ago
> They're often the ones holding the gun. Apple customers historically are often the most accepting of new things, even if that means change that involves spending more money, because Apple will cover the other end of change well (&
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by gopalv 4y ago
> an awful lot of words to say “read what you can”. But it needs to be said and repeated, right? Because people feel time-poor when it comes to matching what they want to do against what they can do. Building up a backlog is probably the
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by gopalv 4y ago
> What my partner ends up with are the managers that cannot get a job in the better paying segment. This observation is sort of downstream from the Baumol effect rather than the effect itself or more accurately when the effect is counter
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by gopalv 4y ago
"I can always make more money, I can't make more time." This was something a mentor told me, but then described with a lot more nuance around what that means. That money is something you can save or borrow, but time is a much
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I struggled with making daily company decisions. Lots of doctor visits and hospital stays later, I was diagnosed with OCD and depression while trying to operate this company and bring my dreams to reality. This was not a recipe for suc
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by gopalv 4y ago
> I'm a bit worried I won't concentrate as much if I have unlimited hearts, have you noticed any decline in recall? I did a trial and I noticed I spend more time with the App when I had unlimited hearts, so I got through more l
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by gopalv 4y ago
So the reason SVB had trouble with their assets is that they had to reprice the mortgage based securities they had to sell off. If I wanted to buy back my house's mortgage from the bank, they'd ask me to pay the full principal. Bu

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